Snow Water Resources Laboratory
The University of British Columbia
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Zooming in from the global scale to the Colorado's Front Range, Dr. Hale presents, "Water Towers of the West" in the CU-Boulder Fiske Planetarium.
Knowledge and information are most powerful and refined when shared.
We believe it is imperative to communicate outside of one's scientific expertise, and to evaluate the academic platform and examine its leadership, community, components and underlying ethics.
Continually asking questions and learning as snow hydrologists and — by engaging with colleagues, stakeholders, and beyond — fuels our desires and abilities to teach and communicate to a broader community.
With an aim of ever-ongoing self and programmatic growth and stretching individual and collective scope, we have doubled our resolve to make science a more inclusive space for all.
2025 Snow School instructors and participants Mammoth Lakes, CA, USA.
Snow Field Measurement Field School
Snow Field Measurement Field School
Dr. Hale is a current instructor and organizer for the SINTER and CUAHSI Snow School, where a team of snow scientists provide fundamental training to students each January in a moving location across the United States. Specifically, students are taught to make and analyze snow measurements. We aim to end the intensive week having given students the tools to perform high-quality fieldwork and design studies making snowpack measurements.
NASA SnowEx Campaign: Field Efforts on the North Slope of Alaska
NASA SnowEx Campaign: Field Efforts on the North Slope of Alaska
NASA SnowEx efforts focused on the Arctic tundra and boreal forest biomes in 2022 and 2023, evaluating both early- and mid-season snowpack and ground conditions in northern and interior Alaska. During these field campaigns, Dr. Hale collected snow pit profile measurements and deployed ground-based remote sensing tools, providing real-time updates from the Toolik Field Station. You can watch all 5 episodes of this mini-series here.
New York Times
New York Times
Dr. Hale quoted in the New York Times regarding a project to improve snow monitoring in the Green Mountains of Vermont and the concerning fate of the more-transient Northeastern USA snowpack under current and future climate conditions.
NASA SnowEx Campaign: Community Snow Observations
NASA SnowEx Campaign: Community Snow Observations
As a time-series lead for the regional Niwot Ridge, CO site and a team member of the SnowEx intensive field efforts from 2017 and 2023, Dr. Hale has spent significant time communicating our snow science to the surrounding community, encouraging interested undergraduates, local residents, and school groups to get and remain involved.
Women in Science and Engineering
Women in Science and Engineering
As the former president of the CU-Boulder Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) group, Dr. Hale remains committed to working with leadership teams across universities and institutes to fulfill the WiSE mission: providing coaching, mentorship and a platform for discussion, networking and support to encourage and inspire women in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields throughout their professional careers.
University of Colorado-Boulder Snow Internship
University of Colorado-Boulder Snow Internship
Prior to joining UBC, Dr. Hale led the field component of the CU-Boulder Undergrad SNOTERN Internship Program for four snow seasons. The long-term data collected through this program has helped drive published papers through continuous collection of snowpack data. While creating relationships with the snow interns, we have developed projects showcased in the annual CU-Boulder Hydrologic Sciences Symposium, Museum of Boulder, CU-Science Discovery programs, and honors theses.
Reviewing snow pit protocols with two snow interns in the Saddle Catchment at Niwot Ridge Long Term Ecological Research site in Colorado, USA.
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